Acanthus mollis is less hardy than A. spinosus.
The leaves are glossy green and have soft spines. The purple and white flower spikes can reach a height of 6 feet. Provide a growing area with full sun or partial shade and a well-drained soil. Foliage will be lusher when planted in part shade. Flowers dry easily when cut or left on the plant.

A showy Yarrow, New Vintage Red has antique red flower heads made up of many tiny flowers with creamy-white eyes. Blooms begin in early summer and continue into early fall and have great color retention. Trim off spent flower heads to encourage re-bloom. Fern-like green foliage adds a nice texture in your sunny beds. Drought tolerant once established and tolerant of coastal conditions. Good for cut and dried arrangements, container or mass plantings.

Striking white flowers bloom in the summer above bright green fern-like foliage. Flowers have a long bloom season and stand out in woodland gardens and shady beds. Bridal Veil is tolerant of heavy shade and is deer and rabbit resistant. Herbaceous perennial.

This vigorous selection, with its mound of smooth, glossy, bronze-green leaves, adds elegance to the mixed border all season. In bloom 'Vision in White' is spectacular: large, creamy white plumes of fragrant flowers rise above the foliage like a cloud.

An upright, arching, deciduous shrub with lavender flowers in the summer, followed by a profusion of violet-purple fruit clusters in the fall. New growth is bronze-purple, summer foliage is dark green, turning purplish pink in the fall.

New hybrid coreopsis with fluted, golden yellow petals and a compact habit. The unusual flowers are on 18" stems above the green foliage. This long blooming perennial attracts butterflies and works well in a rock garden or perennial border. Deer resistant.

Mango colored buds open up to pretty yellow-orange, tubular shaped flowers in the summer. Smaller in height than most Crocosmia make this a nice choice for containers or mass plantings, and a good cut flower. Form and texture contrast nicely with other plantings. Hummingbirds love this perennial.

Bulbous perennial with gorgeous bright red flowers. The individual blooms are not as big as those of some crocosmias, but their impact is stunning, and small-flowered varieties such as this are the hardiest which makes them a wise choice in cold areas.

Lovely perennial with blooms all summer. Green foliage with white ray petals surrounding a yellow center. Easy to grow and very adaptable to poor soils, heat, drought, dry, rocky, and clay soils. Flowers will rebloom without deadheading, but it will help encourage new growth and improve the overall appearance of the plant. Can be divided, usually every few years when it starts getting overcrowded.